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Graciano

Boys' name

Form of Gratianus

Graciano has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1948, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Graciano, 2006

1 in 565,000

Graciano over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Graciano: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Gratianus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Graciano means

Graciano is a form of Gratianus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Graciano is used in Spanish and Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɡɾa.ˈθja.no/, /ɡɾa.ˈsja.no/, /ɡɾɐ.ˈsjɐ.nu/ and /ɡɾa.ˈsjɐ̃.nu/ for Graciano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gratianus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 204 boys were recorded with the name Graciano between 1923 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1948; its best national rank was #2,507 in 1948.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Graciano?

Graciano had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 565,000
7 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 294,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,745 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Graciano sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,745 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Graciano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gracianos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Graciano was born before 1968 — so the typical Graciano is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
15.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
152
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Choose a decade

1960s — 15.7% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Graciano rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1948 (10)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,507
1948

Spellings of Graciano

Graciano is not the most common spelling — Gracin is, with 71.6% against Graciano's 28.4%.

  • Gracin71.6%515
  • Graciano28.4%204

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Graciano is used

Across 1910–2025, Graciano was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 829,626 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Graciano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Graciano around the world

Where Graciano ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1963–2025
    #5,375
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Graciano by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,507
1948
Peak year
1948
10 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
204
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Graciano

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GranthamGrantleyGraingerGraytonGraesynGraysynGracesonGraylenGrazianoGraylandGraylonGraisonEstefanoAmilianoGracynSilvianoGiordanoGraylanGrayerLuchianoGradynGraycenGrabielGraves

Sibling names for Graciano

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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